L.A. Paul Quotes

The mathematical fraternity is a little like a self-perpetuating priesthood. The mathematicians of today teach the mathematicians of tomorrow and, in effect, decide whom to admit to the priesthood.

If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to gather them and open himself up and hide them among his ribs and faintly ticking heart.

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.

Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

You are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring.

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

First we need to decide what needs to be done. Then we do it. And then we ask if it is possible.

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce the profit or loss.

My philosophy is I take today, live it the best way I can and if I wake up I'll take another shot at tomorrow.

I don't eat fast food any more, not since I got cancer.

I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46.

I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.

When I retire I'm gonna bet on Wolves drawing every game. I'll be a multi-millionaire!

I'm starting to like muggers more than congressmen. At least the muggers don't claim they're doing you a favor.

For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if that voice is effective.

We obviously can't compete with the big clubs trying to sign world class stars, but we've already identified some very good players and we'll see what happens.

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.

If Europe’s example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don’t drive them too much.

There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges.

If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit on their cash and not spend it.

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

I like Colin Wilson, mainly because he never went to school. When you don't go to school you can say anything you want like that and not have to worry.

Dave Jones got to the final last year and lost in the semi-final this year, so progress has definitely been made

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.

The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our rule of laws.

The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive.

I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.

The only way to improve a trick is to find a simpler and more direct way of doing it.

The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors.

Waking up is seeing yourself just as you are, not as you would like to be nor as you are afraid you might be.

Windows isn't supposed to make sense, it's supposed to make money.

I'm more interested in a world that works than what sells.

Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites.

The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.

People would say to me, “Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney”, and I'd say: “I wish I had his money!”

I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.